Re: Returns in Extracted Text
Re: Returns in Extracted Text
- Subject: Re: Returns in Extracted Text
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:34:55 -0400
- Organization: [very little]
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Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 12:06:03 -0600
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Subject: Returns in Extracted Text
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From: Eric Schult <email@hidden>
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To: <email@hidden>
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I'm using Tanaka's getlines and appendToFile commands to extract text from
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one text file and write it to another. I'm putting in a carriage return
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between the lines. When I open the resulting text on a WinNT box, using
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NotePad, the Mac carriage returns are replaced by a maddeningly cute little
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musical note character. Does anybody know what I can do on the script side
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to make NotePad read the carriage return as a carriage return?
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wes
I believe Windoze apps prefer linefeeds as a means of marking the ends
of lines. A linefeed is ASCII character 10.
Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
http://AppleScriptsToGo.com
4020 W.220th St.
Fairview Park, OH 44126
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